page_title: Monterey Bay
section_title: Communities around Monterey Bay
hierarchical_section_title: Monterey Bay / Communities around Monterey Bay
caption_attribution_description: English: Sea Otter in Moss Landing. Original Image source: The little known Secret of Moss Landing Photography
context_page_description: Monterey Bay is a bay of the Pacific Ocean located on the coast of the U.S. state of California. The bay is south of the major cities of San Francisco and San Jose. Santa Cruz is located at the north end of the bay, and Monterey is on the Monterey Peninsula at the south end. The "Monterey Bay Area" is a local colloquialism sometimes used to describe the whole of the Central Coast communities of Santa Cruz and Monterey counties.
context_section_description: Clockwise around the bay, generally from north to south.  Inland communities are indented:
  Santa Cruz
  Live Oak
  Capitola
  Soquel
  Aptos
  Rio del Mar
  La Selva Beach
  Corralitos
  Freedom
  Watsonville
  Pajaro
  Las Lomas
  Elkhorn
  Moss Landing
  Castroville
  Salinas
  Marina
  Seaside
  Fort Ord
  Sand City
  Del Rey Oaks
  Monterey
  New Monterey
  Pacific Grove
  Carmel
  Carmel Valley
  Carmel Highlands
caption: Sea otter coming ashore, Moss Landing.
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